The quote that got away
Submitted by jjardine on Thu, 2008-09-25 13:28.
In talking Wednesday with Rodney Carpenter, who ran the YMCA from Modesto from 1982 until 1987, I asked him about the current Y leadership's failure to provide an annual audit over the past three years.
Carpenter, who spent most of his professional life running non-profits, said audits are vital to the organization's existence. Did any non-profit he ever headed fail to complete an annual audit?
"Oh, God no!" he said.
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If only Rodney Carpenter had been here instead of Steve Smith we
I wonder how many local non-profits...
Have failed to have an annual audit....
Robert Stanford
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Well we know
that one in particular isn't compliant with their use permit... The United Samaritans Foundation for one. I wonder how many more there are county wide?
Is that the way that it stands now?
They did not come into compliance since they were raked across the coals at the Turlock City Council?
Also, what does that have to do with a financial audit - are you now accusing them of pilfering money, Linda?
Robert Stanford
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Nope.
Why go after them?
Why don't you go after some organizations that may have taken advantage of the poor?
I could name two of them that worry me....
Robert Stanford
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Non-profits are supposed to do an audit once a year.
Why don't you check into that for us linda?
Check all the non-profits in the county and make a list of who has and hasn't.
give her something realistic to do....
Check out where El Concilio's money came from - since they are an affiliate of NCLR - I am sure your boyfriend would be more than eager to help you - you could start by asking two questions:
1. What organization paid the rent of their current location (before the mortgage meltdown)
2. What was Mike Zagaris doing on their board of Directors in 2006? (before the morgage meltdown)
She won't even be able to do that - smoke and mirrors - not even that - it's too easy - just another stumbling block to the path of improvement.
Robert Stanford
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Mismanagement
It seems like anything that goes bankrupt - whether it is mortgage companies, banks, or non-profits, can always be shown to have mismanagement. Unfortunately, money is not grown on trees.
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"People say I give them hell. I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." ~ Harry S Truman
Pastel...
So, I take it that you are down with annual audits?
Which post was this in response to?
Robert Stanford
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I'm not down with audits
But the YMCA is selling the building.... and going bankrupt too. I said the reason is mismanagement, and you wonder why there was no audit for three years?
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"People say I give them hell. I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." ~ Harry S Truman
But at least with an audit you can identify exactly what happen
What's more -
Divert the collision - keep the organization on track - generally, when audits are missing from solvent organizations, it generally means that there is something shady going on -
But then again - if I recall correctly this is merely a branch of the National YMCA and when we say THE YMCA is going bankrupt - that may be a misnomer.
Robert Stanford
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